Ugliest toy train locomotive

[csxt30]

Well I never saw a toy train locomotive I didn't like !! Plus if I didn't like it, I'm sure someone else would like it !! [:D][:D] Thanks, John

[laz 57]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I say the ugliest are those BEEPS.
laz57

[TexasEd]

That UP passenger engine with the facemask looking grill. I don't remember what it is called, but it was something like Z-2000.

[prewardude]

The ugliest locomotives I have ever seen (toy or real) are AMTRAK'S Genesis locomotives! Whoever designed those things better go back to college and do some more learning. I mean, it doesn't look like they even tried. Leave it to AMTRAK to put something this hideous-looking into service!

[macdannyk1]

AEM-7's. Darned ugly boxes on wheels.

[TexasEd]

Got it!

M-10000



Looks like it's wearing a catcher's mask.

[Jumijo]

The "ugliest" toy train locomotive? Sponge Bob Dockside switcher, hands down! What a horrible representation of a wonderful little loco. I thoroughly dislike "licensed-set" locomotives. Who wants a loco, let alone an entire train, splattered with graphics and logos of merchandise or organizations other than real rr carriers? I wonder if toy train manufacturers actually make money on those sets?

Those locos and sets are ugly, but quite a few are just of no interest to me, like the Porter. The Trainmaster locos just look like huge rectangles to me. 19th century locos like the General also do not appeal to me.

Jim

[Odd-d]

The ugliest trains are ALL Lionel post war plastic junk , the 726,736, 2046, 2056, 671,681,all diesels are uu-uuugly. Now I like the pre war hudsons, Hiawathas and PRR B6 0-6-0s, but you can keep the rest of the plastic toys or give them to some poor children. I do like the pre war lithographed tinplates........especially standard gauge. I might have liked Lionel better if they had followed conventional steam loco design rules with cenyerlines through the smokestack , cylinders and pilot truck and horizontal centers through the boiler and through the pistons and driver centers. As it is the post war steams look lopsided and wierd. I much prefer the modern full scale stuff they make now. Odd-d

[Anonymous]

Any postwar motorized units, especially the tiejector!

[Anonymous]

I agree with odd-d too, it all looks cheap.

[csxt30]

I don't mind saying I couldn't disagree more!! Growing up in those years & that time frame, that stuff appealed to us then & still does now. I really don't collect that much Postwar stuff, but when someone shows me a postwar item, or I see them for sale, it makes me take notice & remember those days. As for calling them JUNK & so ugly, there may be a few things you may not know. The Icons of my day were Lionel, not the same Lionel today, Schwinn bicycles, Whizzer motor bikes, Cushman scooters, American Flyer, Gilbert erecter sets, etc. Thanks, John

[railfanespee4449]

I think Camelbacks are Cool!!! As for ugliest toy train, I'd have to say the Lionel p/w
0-4-0 under the 2-4-2 shell. A'so, the original 2-4-2 scout.

[Anonymous]

The ugliest train is the cheepo trains.I am not proved of taking care of owning a 0-4-0 a5 from mth.Instead I have to buy the plymouth which the plymouth switchers from k-line seem to hate my train track.

[Anonymous]

the m-10006 is uglier than the the "m-10000"it looks like a banged up shoebox.

[Anonymous]

Never mind the responsibility of the "0-4-0 a5"the "M-10007 looks like a pile of shoeboxes:?

[Anonymous]

Hey, BL-2''s are good engines and they are not ugly. Ugly is the Kraus Maffei!